A CONSTRUCTION team was fined 280,000 yuan (US$40,781) for illegally felling 29 trees at a construction site west of Wuzhou Guest House in Futian District.

The law enforcement team of Shatou Subdistrict Office in Futian received a complaint Aug. 9 of the construction team suspected of felling trees illegally at the construction site. An investigation showed 29 trees, at 10 years of age and 25 cm in diameter, had been felled.

Teachers’ college

SHENZHEN is planning to build a high-level teachers’ college to increase its competitive capability, Zhang Jihong, director of Shenzhen Municipal Education Bureau, told school headmasters at a meeting Wednesday on the eve of the new semester.

Currently, there is no specialized teachers’ college in the city.

Funds for micro-firms

THE city government has set up a 5-billion-yuan angel fund to subsidize micro enterprises with good prospects, according to Wang Lixin, vice mayor of Shenzhen, at the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Forum of the China Smart City International Expo, which ended Wednesday.

The move is to further improve the city’s business environment. At present, there are 50,000 registered investment institutions in the city, but only 10,000 institutions are active.